The EQ-5D is a generic questionnaire which generates a health profile as well as index scores for health-related quality of life that may be used in cost-utility analysis.
"Health services access questions" were composed in order to generate a "health services access composite index score".
Current metabolic engineering approaches tend to focus on more complex, biosynthetic pathways leading to end-products that generate a health benefit for the consumer (nutraceuticals).
Any prescriptions obtained without generating a health insurance claim were not captured in this analysis.
While the introduction of a universal system will be complex, it could generate a health system responsive to the needs of all South Africans.
The items from the SF-12v2 were also used to generate a health state utility (using the Short Form-6D, or SF-6D, classification).
Applicable to a wide range of health conditions and treatments, EQ-5D generates a health profile, but is also capable of expressing health status as a single index value (utility value).
It has 36 questions and generates a health profile of eight sub-scale scores: physical functioning, role limitations due to physical problems, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, role limitations due to emotional problems and mental health [ 15].
The survey has 36 questions and generates a health profile of eight subscale scores: physical functioning, role limitations caused by physical problems, bodily pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, role limitations due to emotional problems, and mental health [ 18, 24].
